In the February 1998
VRS newsletter, Joe Harvey wrote a book review of “Cyclamen” by Christopher
Grey-Wilson.As an addendum, he
included the following:“The problem of
how to pronounce the word ‘Cyclamen’ has long perplexed English speakers.I prefer the short first vowel as in “sick”
but others prefer to lengthen the vowel as in “cycle”.“Plant Names Simplified” by Johnson
& Smith has a poem from an old gardening periodical”: